Linarite

Origin: Lorenz Gegentrum Mine, Halsbrücke, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 1.2 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 
Origin: Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 5 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

Linarite with aurichalcite (?)
Origin: South mine,  Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Mammoth mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image
 
Origin: Ecton mine, Audubon, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Owner: Lou Perloff
Microscopic image

Photo courtesy of: 

Lou Perloff

Photo-Atlas of Minerals

 

  
Origin: Caldbeck Fells, Cumberland, England
Sample size: 2.7 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Rob Lavinsky

The Arkenstone

 

  
Long bladed, dark blue crystals to 1.5 cm, lying flat on quartz matrix
  
Long bladed crystals to 1.5 cm with clear fluorite
  
Long bladed blue crystals to 2cm, flat on quartz matrix with galena.
  
Blue, bladed crystals to 1.5 cm, flat on quartz matrix
  
 
  
Origin: Blanchard mine, Socorro Co., New Mexico, United States
Sample size: 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (top), 3 x 3 x 2 cm (2nd row), 3.5 x 2 x 1 cm (3rd row), 3.5 x 2.5 x 2 cm (4th row), 4.5 x 3 x 1.5 cm (5th row), 3 x 2 x 1 cm (bottom)
 
  
Sharp, deep blue bladed linarite crystals to 1 mm in aggregate associated with caledonite. Also on the matrix are pyromorphite, cerussite, malachite and galena.
Origin: Leadhills, Scotland
Ex. DeVito collection
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 5 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

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